NOTICE is hereby given, that sections 8, 9, 10 and 11, block II, Tuturau district, containing respectively 13a or 38p, 63a or 36p, 78a 1r 19p, 78a 1r 15p, will be offered for sale by public auction at the Royal Mail Hotel, Popotunoa, on Wednesday, the 16th July next, immediately after the town land sale, at the upset price of £1 per acre.

WEDNESDAY, 16th July.

NOTICE is hereby given, that section 1, block V, Hawksbury district, containing 160a 1r 13p, will be offered for sale by public auction at the Court House, Hawksbury, immediately after the sale of that township on Wednesday, the 16th day of July next, at 2 p.m., at the upset price of 10s per acre.

WEDNESDAY, 16th July.

NOTICE is hereby given, that section 59, block V, Hawksbury district, formerly reserved for bush, containing 54a or 20p, will be offered for sale by public auction at the Court House, Hawksbury, on Wednesday, the 16th day of July next, immediately after the town land sale there, at the upset price of 21s per acre.

WEDNESDAY, 16th July.

NOTICE is hereby given that sections 5 & 10, block XII, sections 9 to 11 inclusive 12.18.14.15.16.17.18 and 18a, block XIV, Moeraki District, will be offered by auction at Messrs. McMahon and Welsh’s Hotel, Palmerston, (instead of at Mr Mureott’s Hotel Hampden, as previously advertised,) on Wednesday, 16th July next, at 11 a.m., at 10s per acre.

MONDAY, 14th July.

NOTICE is hereby given that sections 24 and 25, block V, and 25, 26 and 27, block VII, Marawenua District, containing respectively 142.31.43.2, 313.1.4.24.4, 134.3 1, will be offered for sale by public auction at Mr Shrimski’s auction rooms, Oamaru, on Monday, the 14th July next, immediately after the Town Land sale, at the upset price of 10s per acre, subject to repayment of survey expenses.

NOTICE to Applicants.—R. Johnston has been appointed to the vacancy in the Land Off 36.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.

To William St. Paul Gellibrand, Esqre., Thomas Lloyd Gellibrand, Esquire, and Sir Francis Smith, Pastoral Lessees of Run No. 218, in the Province of Otago.

TAKE NOTICE that in terms of section one hundred and three (103) of the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1872,” the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Otago hereby call upon and require you, as the holders of the pastoral lease of Run No. 218 (which run is included within the boundaries of the Otago Gold Fields,) to exercise your right to apply for an agricultural lease under the provisions of section 103a of the said Act, of a block not exceeding six hundred and forty (640) acres in extent of the land comprised in the said pastoral lease, not actually known to be auriferous.

And further take notice that if you fail or neglect to make application for an agricultural lease within three months from and after the date of the service of this notice, you will be deemed to have declined to exercise your right to obtain an agricultural lease under the provisions of the said Act.

Dated this first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner of the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Otago.

To William St. Paul Gellibrand, Esquire, Thomas Lloyd Gellibrand, Esquire, and Sir Francis Smith, Pastoral Lessees of Run No. 20, in the Province of Otago.

TAKE NOTICE that in terms of section one hundred and three (103) of the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1872,” the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Otago hereby call upon and require you, as the holders of the pastoral lease of Run No. 20 (which run is included within the boundaries of the Otago Gold Fields,) to exercise your right to apply for an agricultural lease under the provisions of section 103a of the said Act, of a block not exceeding six hundred and forty (640) acres in extent of the land comprised in the said pastoral lease, not actually known to be auriferous.

And further take notice that if you fail or neglect to make application for an agricultural lease within three months from and after the date of the service of this notice, you will be deemed to have declined to exercise your right to obtain an agricultural lease under the provisions of the said Act.

Dated this first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner of the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Otago.

To William St. Paul Gellibrand, Esquire, Pastoral Lessee of Run No. 121a, in the Province of Otago.

TAKE NOTICE that in terms of section one hundred and three D (103D) of the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1872,” the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Otago hereby call upon and require you, as the holder of the Pastoral lease of Run No. 121A (which run is included within the boundaries of the Otago Gold Fields) to exercise your right to apply for an Agricultural lease under the provisions of section 103a of the said Act, of a block not exceeding six hundred and forty (640) acres in extent of the land comprised in the said Pastoral lease not actually known to be auriferous.

And further take notice that if you fail or neglect to make application for an Agricultural lease within three months from and after the date of the service of this notice, you will be deemed to have declined to exercise your right to obtain an Agricultural lease under the provisions of the said Act.

Dated this first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner of the Waste Land Board of the Province of Otago.

GAZETTE.—There was a special Gazette published on Friday, 27th June, 1873; and one also on Tuesday, July 1, 1873.

GAZETTE.—Parties who get the “Gazette,” or who may apply for it, should give as part of their address the nearest, or most convenient post town. The Gazette has little chance of reaching parties unless that is done.

OTAGO LAND ACT 1872 may be obtained from the Government Storekeeper, Dunedin. Price, 2s 6d; if posted, 3s 2d. The usual allowance to the trade. Postage stamps cannot be received in payment.